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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no s

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to mens manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral. – Francis Bacon

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Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. – Francis Bacon

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Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. – Francis Bacon

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For friends… do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble. – Francis Bacon

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There once was a sculptor called Phidias
Who had a distaste for the hideous.
So he sculpt Aphrodite
Without any nightie
Which shocked the ultra-fastidious. – Anon.

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The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an absolute affront to logic, common sense and the 5000 year human struggle for aesthetic taste. – Peter McWilliams

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I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today. – Will Rogers

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I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring. – Otto von Bismarck

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I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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When Maurice touched a keyboard, it was like something from a movie, magical. He would always give you something from a movie, and youd go, what did you just play… immediately inspirational writings, amazing. Thats what were going to miss. – Robin Gibb

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Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes. – E. M. Forster

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